Certification Profile: Having a professional certification
means you passed an exam that validates your knowledge and abilities
in a particular area. Certifications build solid careers. Having
a professional certification gives you an edge when you're applying
for a job or are up for a promotion. It's proof of your abilities
and adds to your resume. Many employers preferentially hire certified
employees. To determine which Certification is right for you, you
must first consider your career goals.
Drafting Career Profile: Drafters prepare technical drawings
and plans used by production and construction workers to build everything
from manufactured products to structures. Their drawings provide
visual guidelines, showing the technical details of the products
and structures and specifying dimensions, materials to be used,
and procedures and processes to be followed. Drafters fill in technical
details, using drawings, rough sketches, specifications, codes,
and calculations previously made by engineers, surveyors, architects,
or scientists. Drafting work has many specialties, and titles may
denote a particular discipline of design or drafting. Specialties
include: aeronautical drafters, architectural drafters, civil drafters,
electrical drafters, electronic drafters, mechanical drafters, process
piping or pipeline drafters.
Computer Programming Career Profile: Computer programmers
write, test, and maintain the detailed instructions, called programs,
that computers must follow to perform their functions. They also
conceive, design, and test logical structures for solving problems
by computer. Many technical innovations in programming—advanced
computing technologies and sophisticated new languages and programming
tools—have redefined the role of a programmer and elevated
much of the programming work done today. Job titles and descriptions
may vary, depending on the organization.
Information Systems Security Career Profile: Security experts
are now in big demand. Threats to corporate networks are at an all-time
high, and with corporations opening up their networks more and more
to customers, partners, and suppliers, companys are finally seeing
the value of putting money into security. Network Security consists
of ensuring data is both safe from intruders, and also replacable
if damaged or destroyed. Network secuirty personel, also reffered
to as computer systems administrators design, install, and support
an organization's LAN, WAN, network segment, Internet, or Intranet
system. They provide day-to-day onsite administrative support for
users in a variety of work environments and also may plan, coordinate,
and implement network security measures.
PC Support Career Profile: Computer support specialists
provide technical assistance, support, and advice to customers and
other users. This group includes technical support specialists and
help-desk technicians. These troubleshooters interpret problems
and provide technical support for hardware, software, and systems.
They answer phone calls, analyze problems using automated diagnostic
programs, and resolve recurrent difficulties. Support specialists
may work either within a company that uses computer systems or directly
for a computer hardware or software vendor. Increasingly, these
specialists work for help-desk or support services firms, where
they provide computer support on a contract basis to clients.
Web Designer Career Profile: Web design is a specialized
function within information technology, and a key role in Web development.
Unlike programmers, who work on technology at the back end and front
end of the Net, Web designers create the look, feel, and navigation
for websites. Their "front end" work includes defining
the user interface (UI) (what people see and interact with when
they come to a site—for example, the home page), creating
catchy graphics or animated images, and choosing the style, fonts,
and other visual elements to make a site appealing and help a company
advance its business goals.
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